Website Accessibility
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Website accessibility has become a major issue for web designers and developers. Websites designed without taking accessibility into consideration exclude certain sectors of the population and limit your customer base.
This course will enable you to ensure your site conforms to the WAI (W3C) Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Working knowledge of HTML and or a development platform e.g. Dreamweaver.
All Harlequin Training courses have lunch, refreshments, course notes and post training support included.
Harlequin Training are Adobe & Quark authorised and are accredited with the Institute of IT Trainers.
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Further Details
General concepts and techniques
Why make your site accessible?
Analysis: what makes a site inaccessible?
Up to date standards and technologies
Browser and platform compatibility
Legal issues
Case studies
Legal requirements
Coding for accessibility
Developer tools
Doctypes: XHTML v HTML
Deprecated elements
Writing efficient and meaningful HTML
Building pages with CSS
Separating content from presentation
The cascade, inheritance, specifity
Fonts, colours and other properties
Non-tabled page layouts
Using lists for navigation
Columns and other layout techniques
Styles for print
Navigation
Clear navigation structures
Link titles - identifying link content
Specifying keyboard shortcuts for links
Using the tab key for navigation
Adding a Skip Navigation option
Building a Site Map
Validation
WAI guidelines
UK Government guidelines
Bobby, Web Exact and other resources
Manual checks Accessibility checklist
Assistive technologies
Screen readers
Braille displays
Text
Specifying language and encoding
Scalability ensuring readable text
Acronyms and abbreviations
Images
Alt tags providing alternative content
Using background images text replacement
Animated gifs
Tables
Using headers and titles for data tables
When to avoid tables
Forms
Associating labels with form elements
Building in keyboard access for forms
Accessible design
Building for usability
Fluid vs fixed design allowing for scalability
Colour schemes contrasting colours
Using alternatives to colour for mark-up
Multimedia & scripting
Working with Flash, video or audio content providing alternatives
Issues with JavaScript and other browser scripting languages
Mouse events providing keyboard based alternatives
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